Greater than seven months after first revealing her transfer to MMA, former undisputed tremendous middleweight champion Savannah Marshall lastly has a date for her debut within the cage, which pits her towards multi-sport phenom TBA on June eighth in Newcastle.
PFL’s press launch claims Marshall (13-1, 10 KO) will battle at girls’s light-weight, that means 155 kilos. She’s by no means weighed in beneath 159 for any of her boxing matches, that means the load lower might show a extra daunting foe than whoever PFL sacrifices to please the native followers.
As I’ve stated earlier than, although, it’s a essential trial if she desires her run to have any type of legitimacy. There are nearly no noteworthy feminine fighters above 145, which itself is essentially barren. Exterior of rematching Shields in four-ounce gloves or going through somebody like Larissa Pacheco or Cris Cyborg who would completely annihilate her, Marshall’s pickings are slim.
That stated, they’re additionally slim in boxing. With Shadasia Inexperienced flaming out, a rematch with Franchon Crews-Dezurn is all she has to stay up for at 168. 160 is even worse, with the 39-year-old, 2-0 Kaye Scott sitting behind Shields at no. 2. No less than this figures to be extra fascinating.
